Building Nirmala’s Future, Today

Oct 05, 2017

Nirmala Gyangrish, the class topper from grade 8th, remembers school to have been a trying experience after the quake.

When the big earthquakes of 2015 hit Nepal in April of that year, the school’s older buildings had sustained fatal damage. There was an elongated building on the ground just by the path that had 4 rooms, and a similar building just above it. Both had large fault-lines, and “stones that looked like they’d fall off the walls”, Chhali Kumari Gurmachhan, a teacher at the school, recounts.